[Coco] 128k Bubble Memory

Roger Merchberger zmerch-coco at 30below.com
Mon Jul 27 23:55:30 EDT 2009


Rumor has it that Dennis Bathory-Kitsz may have mentioned these words:

>At 08:00 AM 7/26/2009, you wrote:

>>Doing some GOOGLEing yesterday, there is some interesting work being done

>>with bubble logics.


Don't forget, there was a commercial product for the Tandy Model 100
system... I believe a few people on the M100 listserv have them.

Rick Hanson over at www.club100.org would know of the units...


>> The thing I thought most funny was the units had to be

>>"heated" up to 30-40 degrees C just to operate properly. Where would we be

>>today if all our computers doubled as a hot plate, and liked it<g>.


With needing heat sinks, special greases in between thereof, & whatnot...
they're not??? ;-)

(BTW, there was a project to feed 12V to a bunch of Cyrix 6x86 CPUs to
actually turn it *into a hotplate* to cook eggs!)

http://www.rabidhardware.net/?id=44


> -- I think "Learning the 6809" topped the list at about 500 copies.


I wish I could have afforded to be #501... :-(


> (Taking stuff to the dump yesterday brought a big sense of years lost to

> technology that would quickly become obsolete.)


Well, after retyping this line 4 times... nothing seemed appropriate... all
I can say is "I feel your pain."

Take care,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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